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The Skinny Magazine: Last Chance for A Scottish Lapdance?
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Rachael Fulton
Nov 8, 20201 min read
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The Skinny Magazine: Jakarta's Pleasure/Pain Principle
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Rachael Fulton
Nov 8, 20201 min read
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The Skinny Magazine: A Traveller's Manifesto
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Rachael Fulton
Nov 8, 20201 min read
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Daleks in The Clyde: Glasgow's Street Art Renaissance
Along a short stretch of Argyle Street, before the road melts into the West End, painted people stop passers-by in their tracks....

Rachael Fulton
Nov 7, 20205 min read
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Left Destitute: Glasgow's Forgotten Asylum Seekers
Winner of Refugee Week Media Award 2013 Sitting on a battered couch in a West End church beneath a poster of Glasgow, Michael Smith talks...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 7, 20204 min read
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Mission To Help The Homeless
Every Autumn, schools, businesses and churches around Glasgow collect tins of food to give to the city's homeless and disadvantaged...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 5, 20205 min read
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Last Chance for a Cup of Tchai?
The aroma of chai and charcoal and the clink of teacups are a source of comfort for many in the west end. In a tiny tearoom overlooking...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 5, 20204 min read
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Living The End of Life As Best They Can: Marie Curie Hospice
"Laughter is the best tonic in the world. Without it what would you do?" says James Coyle, sipping a cup of tea. Nestled side-by-side in...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 5, 20204 min read
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Simon Community: Helping Glasgow's Homeless
It's just a three-inch piece of folded card to most, a throwaway leaflet covered in phone numbers. To other people, the tiny booklet is a...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 5, 20205 min read
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Dear Green Places: The Fight for North Kelvin Meadow
Although given the moniker Dear Green Place, it's looming tenement blocks, high rises and miles of pavement that knit our city together....

Rachael Fulton
Nov 5, 20204 min read
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Selling Sex in Our City
The street-corner stereotype of prostitutes leaning into car windows is becoming outdated. Glasgow's sex trade is moving off the street,...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 5, 20205 min read
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Insane Championship Wrestling: Lycra & Lambrini
Most '90s kids have, at one time, moonsaulted from an armchair onto an unsuspecting sibling, or choke-slammed one of their stuffed...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 5, 20205 min read
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Glasgow's Tribute to An Gorta Mor: The Great Hunger
In the streets of Dublin, statues of skeletal refugees, their heads cowed, pay silent tribute to a generation tragically lost. Their...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 4, 20203 min read
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Rise Water Nymphs, Racing Clocks & Empire: Glasgow's Public Artworks
Tucked away on Tontine Lane, the cinema-sign artwork of a homegrown Turner prize winner flickers to an audience of none. Empire, the...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 4, 20205 min read
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Made in Scotland: Scottish Opera's Five-15
"Opera is all about storytelling. When people come and see it they get absolutely wrapped up in the drama of the storytelling. "The music...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 4, 20203 min read
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A Day In The Life of a Griphouse Dinky Ninja
"This is a rough and ready gym by the way, none of your LA Fitness or whatever you're used to." Danny Gray's warning as we entered...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 4, 20203 min read
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Bohemian Bookshop Laments Loss of David & Goliath Battle
Voltaire and Rousseau is an eclectic bookshop with a clientele to match. Foraging amongst the endless stacks of second-hand books,...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 4, 20204 min read
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Exploring the East End: Cranhill & Sugarolly Mountains
The East End landscape juxtaposes its jarring past and future: decaying high rises awaiting demolition to one side, the gleaming new Sir...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 4, 20204 min read
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The Urban Foxes and Queer Fishes of Alasdair Gray's Mural
"Do not let daily to-ing and fro-ing, to earn what we need to keep going, prevent what you once felt when wee - hopeful and free." So...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 4, 20204 min read
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Bard In The Botanics: The Tempest (STV)
Article originally written and published for STV Local stv.tv "Here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all, and another...

Rachael Fulton
Nov 4, 20202 min read
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